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TIL “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” features Mount Fuji, being in the “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” series

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51yR TIL heartbreak is actually a form of addiction withdrawal
ADMO4 TIL of Django Reinhardt, a Jazz Gutiarist of the 1930's. He has been called one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century, and he's among the first to play Jazz that featured guitar as the lead instrument. Doing it all while only having 3 fingers on his left hand due to a fire in 1928.
ADajn TIL in 1986, racing legend Dale Earnhardt Sr. steered his car with his knee while sitting out of his window cause he was cleaning his windshield the middle of a race in Richmond.
e014g TIL the letters on hillsides were started by rivalries between High Schools and Universities as a way to mark their territory. The first three ‘mountain monograms’ were erected at Lahainaluna High, UC Berkeley, and BYU. They spread like wildfire in the Western US in the 20s and 30s.
6EvoW TIL about the American Service Members Protection Act of 2002, which gives the United States the authority to use military force to liberate ANY American or citizen of a U.S allied-country from being held in the International Criminal Court at Hague!